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Cognitive, emotional and expressive factors determining the quality and variability of mentalization styles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

A. Vologzhanina ,
E. Sokolova ,
A. Ryzhov  and
L. Pechnikova
A. Vologzhanina
Affiliation:
Lomonosov MSU, Faculty Of Psychology, Moscow, Russian Federation
E. Sokolova
Affiliation:
Lomonosov MSU, Faculty Of Psychology, Moscow, Russian Federation
A. Ryzhov*
Affiliation:
Lomonosov MSU, Faculty Of Psychology, Moscow, Russian Federation
L. Pechnikova
Affiliation:
Lomonosov MSU, Faculty Of Psychology, Moscow, Russian Federation
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

In contemporary context the difficulties of making sense of social ambiguity becomes one of the most important appeals for seeking the psychological help. This grounds the importance of studying the mechanism underlying the quality of mentalization and its individual variations.

Objectives

The objective of the study was to find empirical relations between the quality of mentalization and its cognitive, emotional and expressive mediating factors.

Methods

(1) The Adult Attachment Interview, scored using Social Cognition and Object Relations-Global rating method for mentalization ability. (2) Group embedded figures test. (3) New Tolerance-Intolerance to ambiguity and (4) Toronto alexithymia scale questionnaires. Twenty participants, aged 18-38, looking for psychological consultation, took part in the study.

Results

Correlation analysis suggests positive relation between field-independency and tolerance to ambiguity (r = .47; p < .05). The complexity of representations of the mind positively correlates with the understanding of social causality (r = .92; p < .01). The affective quality of relationships’ representations positively correlates with the ability to emotionally invest into relationships (r = .66; p < .01), and with the understanding of social causality (r = .47; p < .05). The ability of emotional investment into relationships also positively correlates with the understanding of social causality (r = .93; p < .01). There is a negative link between the severity of alexithymia and the presence of long-term relationships with a partner (r = -.53; p < .05).

Conclusions

Mentalization should be understood as a system, with underplaying cognitive, expressive and emotional factors.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

mentalizationSCORS-Gpsychological helptolerance to ambiguity
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S688
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